The Christmas Bonus?????

SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
edited December 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Does anyone still get one???

My girlfriend was given a $500 Christmas bonus......She almost fainted......Didnt expect a bonus this year....


I have only been given a Christmas bonus once, in the last 20 or so years....Safe to say I will not be getting one this year....


So?? Does anyone here still get the Christmas bonus???
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,251
    I have received one every year, but on Tuesday, the boss decreed "no bonuses this year".
    Thats 2K the last couple of years that I won't get this year.

    He could have at least enrolled me in the Jelly of the Month Club.
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  • nope.
    when i taught - private school - i used to get $100. :)
    christmas bonuses don't exist in my firm. we have busy season bonuses, tho i don't get that as i am salaried, yet get paid OT for my busy season hours, so it all works out. my sister, in the same line of work but a much smaller firm, always gets a christmas bonus, usually quite a serious one too....wonder how that will pan out for her this year as her firm, like most, is hurting.
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    nadda

    in my real life years, i've only gotten a christmas bonus once. i think it was 250

    that's life.
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I used to, but now I work in academia so instead of bonuses we just get a crapload of time off over the holidays. I told my boss this morning that I'm taking vacation days next Mon Tues and Weds and won't see him again until Jan 4th, so that's nice. A bonus would be nicer, though...
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    I've gotten one every year that I've worked for this company (going on 8 years)... the owner looks at them as pay raises that he only has to pay out once, doesn't have to increase, and can deduct from his taxes. Hopefully will be getting on again this year.. will find out on Wed.
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Nope, but do get December 24th to January 2nd off paid inclusive, so I kinda consider that my bonus. My wife's company pay profit sharing and gives the raises at christmas.
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    Nope.

    But I am off for the next two weeks.
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    Flagg wrote:
    Nope.

    But I am off for the next two weeks.

    Same here. 8-)
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  • mfc2006 wrote:
    Flagg wrote:
    Nope.

    But I am off for the next two weeks.

    Same here. 8-)
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  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
    we get a free 'holiday meal' as they call it.
    other than that, nothing.

    monetary bonuses are quickly becoming a thing of the past, unfortunately.
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  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    I'm off from the 24th till the 4th... however we are forced to take vacation days... yep.
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  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    When I worked for a company we used to get our christmas dinner paid for, get nothing from the NHS. Never mind. :)
  • We get quarterly bonuses if the company performance meets the criteria's for each area

    We got a bonus on Black Friday not really a "Christmas Bonus" but it comes at a good time

    After taxes I cleared $800 !

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  • Last year the owner gave us some catalog......Where you go online and place your order...

    Silly catalog..Cheap shit..

    Watches
    thermos
    lighters
    umbrellas
    Blah
    Blah

    Just cheap garbage...

    But I went online and ordered a watch.....
    It arrived 6 months later

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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    edited December 2009
    chromiam wrote:
    I'm off from the 24th till the 4th... however we are forced to take vacation days... yep.



    that sucks.
    sooo many people voluntarily take off here usually - so few native NYers, all going home for the holidays, it's usually a ghost town. i usually work b/c it's impossible for my husband to get the time off between the holidays. this year tho, we have a semi-forced break. they threw us 2 extra days off, plus our usual 3, so we had to use either 1 of our floating holidays, or a vacation day. everyone must take off tho, period. however, having to use one floating holiday, no biggie. if i had to use actual vacation time, i'd be annoyed. i am actually tacking on one vacation day just so i can return on the 5th, but i've got loads of time, so it's a-ok, and hubby is off on the 4th, so it all works.


    supposedly this year we 'may' get some profit-sharing shit, but won't know until the fiscal year ends, which is mid-next year. i doubt it'll happen. however, we are meant to get raises then, yay, given this year we were at a salary freeze. eh....happy to still be well employed!
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  • Last year the owner gave us some catalog......Where you go online and place your order...

    Silly catalog..Cheap shit..

    Watches
    thermos
    lighters
    umbrellas
    Blah
    Blah

    Just cheap garbage...

    But I went online and ordered a watch.....
    It arrived 6 months later

    hehehehehehehe

    HaHa !!

    We just got a Christmas Card with all the Directors signing it

    In the card is a Ticket to take to security to get your "gift"

    I just found out its either a pen set or a Fuckin SNUGGIE !

    :wtf:
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



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  • chromiam wrote:
    I'm off from the 24th till the 4th... however we are forced to take vacation days... yep.



    that sucks.
    sooo many people voluntarily take off here usually - so few native NYers, all going home for the holidays, it's usually a ghost town. i usually work b/c it's impossible for my husband to get the time off between the holidays. this year tho, we have a semi-forced break. they threw us 2 extra days off, plus our usual 3, so we had to use either 1 of our floating holidays, or a vacation day. everyone must take off tho, period. however, having to use one floating holiday, no biggie. if i had to use actual vacation time, i'd be annoyed. i am actually tacking on one vacation day just so i can return on the 5th, but i've got loads of time, so it's a-ok, and hubby is off on the 4th, so it all works.


    supposedly this year we 'may' get some profit-sharing shit, but won't know until the fiscal year ends, which is mid-next year. i doubt it'll happen. however, we are meant to get raises then, yay, given this year we were at a salary freeze. eh....happy to still be well employed!

    I'm off next week

    Have to use my vacation days...but my time renews in January

    3 more weeks and 7 personal days
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  • Not expecting one this year but we've gotten one all the other years I've been at this job...it was usually an extra week's pay
  • Last year the owner gave us some catalog......Where you go online and place your order...

    Silly catalog..Cheap shit..

    Watches
    thermos
    lighters
    umbrellas
    Blah
    Blah

    Just cheap garbage...

    But I went online and ordered a watch.....
    It arrived 6 months later

    hehehehehehehe

    HaHa !!

    We just got a Christmas Card with all the Directors signing it

    In the card is a Ticket to take to security to get your "gift"

    I just found out its either a pen set or a Fuckin SNUGGIE !

    :wtf:
    take the pen set.........
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    chromiam wrote:
    I'm off from the 24th till the 4th... however we are forced to take vacation days... yep.



    that sucks.
    sooo many people voluntarily take off here usually - so few native NYers, all going home for the holidays, it's usually a ghost town. i usually work b/c it's impossible for my husband to get the time off between the holidays. this year tho, we have a semi-forced break. they threw us 2 extra days off, plus our usual 3, so we had to use either 1 of our floating holidays, or a vacation day. everyone must take off tho, period. however, having to use one floating holiday, no biggie. if i had to use actual vacation time, i'd be annoyed. i am actually tacking on one vacation day just so i can return on the 5th, but i've got loads of time, so it's a-ok, and hubby is off on the 4th, so it all works.


    supposedly this year we 'may' get some profit-sharing shit, but won't know until the fiscal year ends, which is mid-next year. i doubt it'll happen. however, we are meant to get raises then, yay, given this year we were at a salary freeze. eh....happy to still be well employed!

    Yeah well I'm just happy that I am salaried and not hourly. The hourly employees were forced to take 5 days the week of July 4th as well as the week between Christmas and New Years. So all told they HAD to take 8 to 10 vacation days this year and most only get between 10 and 12.
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    I'm off next week

    Have to use my vacation days...but my time renews in January

    3 more weeks and 7 personal day



    nice!
    that's what i get - but as straight 22 days of vacation, plus 10 holidays, 2 or which float. vacation can carry forward year to year, up to a certain limit, but holidays expire at the end of each fiscal year - july. christmas kills off the last of my floating holidays, but still have a few set holidays before july....and i've got about 17 days of vacation to last me thru june, so pretty sweet. my husband gets like 5 weeks vacation annually and i think 12 holidays, yet he can never get off around those prime-time dates....tho he is actually getting the week between christmas and news years off in 2010, a first in an over 20+ year career! :D

    chromiam wrote:
    Yeah well I'm just happy that I am salaried and not hourly. The hourly employees were forced to take 5 days the week of July 4th as well as the week between Christmas and New Years. So all told they HAD to take 8 to 10 vacation days this year and most only get between 10 and 12.



    man, that blows for them. how sad. :(
    i am very thankful i am salaried yet get OT, and that i am client service and not internal service. there is always someone worse off than you, absolutely! so you bet, i try to focus on the positives...
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,251
    Last year the owner gave us some catalog......Where you go online and place your order...

    Silly catalog..Cheap shit..

    Watches
    thermos
    lighters
    umbrellas
    Blah
    Blah

    Just cheap garbage...

    But I went online and ordered a watch.....
    It arrived 6 months later

    hehehehehehehe

    HaHa !!

    We just got a Christmas Card with all the Directors signing it

    In the card is a Ticket to take to security to get your "gift"

    I just found out its either a pen set or a Fuckin SNUGGIE !

    :wtf:
    take the pen set.........
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  • Poncier wrote:
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    No way, snuggie all the way, Stone loves his:
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    OMG...hysterical!
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  • Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,872
    I dont' get dick. No Christmas bonus. No Christmas party. They used to let each manager take their team out to lunch, but I dont think we're even getting that this year. You'd think you would get something working for a Fortune 500 company. Ah well, I guess I should be grateful to have a job.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    I received $300 bucks last year.
    I know to some that is a lot and to others that is probably not very much. It seems some of my friends get over a thousand dollars in a bonus.

    For me it was a nice bonus i was happy in it. It is not something that is an expectant part of my compensation.

    My boss is very secrative about if we get a bonus. I doubt we will get anything this year.I will probably find out tomorrow if we are as i'm leaving fora week and he usually gives it to me before i leave for Christmas vacation.
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  • I dont' get dick. No Christmas bonus. No Christmas party. They used to let each manager take their team out to lunch, but I dont think we're even getting that this year. You'd think you would get something working for a Fortune 500 company. Ah well, I guess I should be grateful to have a job.



    i think that is the gift/bonus most of us have this year. :D
    we had a christmas party at a nice place, but NO where near the caliber of place we usually do. all year long, many, many of our usual perquisites, just didn't happen this year. here's to next year!
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  • Jeff MurrayJeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    I used to get a nice under the table cash bonus when I was in public accounting, but now that I am in the corporate world I'm getting screwed worse then Clark Griswald! We used to at least get a certificate for a free turkey, but they took that away this year as well as other things....

    So for those that get them enjoy, for those of us that don't be happy we are working!! :shock:
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